Iconography and Hand painted icons

St. John Maximovitch of San Francisco

St. John Maximovitch the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco

Commemorated June 19 / July 2

“Sanctity is not just a virtue. It is an attainment of such spiritual height, that the abundance of God’s grace which fills the saint overflows on all who associate with him. Great is the saint’s state of bliss in which they dwell contemplating the Glory of God. Being filled with love for God and man, they are responsive to man’s needs, interceding before God and helping those who turn to them.”St. John (Maximovich)

Troparion to St John Maximovich in Tone 6

Glorious apostle to an age of coldness and unbelief, invested with the grace-filled power of the saints of old, divinely illumined seer of heavenly mysteries, feeder of orphans, hope of the hopeless, thou didst enkindle on earth the fire of love for Christ upon the dark eve of the day of judgement. Pray now that this sacred flame may also rise from our hearts, O holy hierarch John.